Pharoah Sanders: Black Unity LP (Verve By Request Series) etjs-67.2 Green Hill Zone

Green Hill Zone

Bunda Amerela (Little Yellow Streetcar)

River Styx

late-night London dancefloor expounding an updated 21st century Afrofuturist vision and you’re halfway there

Pharoah Sanders: Black Unity LP (Verve By Request Series) etjs-67.2 Green Hill ZoneImpulse!, 1972 For 1971s Black Unity, Pharoah Sanders built on the foundations of spiritual free jazz hed explored on his previous albums for Impulse!, this time adding a healthy dose of heavy groove courtesy of twin bass players, Cecil McBee and a young Stanley Clarke. Over the course of a single 37 minute track (split over two sides of vinyl), he investigates the power of rhythm, building polyrhythmic vamps touching on African and Latin traditions.